life
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Standing over my father’s body, my palm encompassing his sternum, I tell him, “You sneaky fuck, you knew exactly what you were doing.” He had predicted his own death, knew it was on the way, and had been telling me every chance he had. What I didn’t grasp was that we were always alone, and…
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The tooth in the back of my mouth is dead. I knew it when the Endodontist winced at the lack of pain I felt as he surged a frozen stick into my mouth. I had cracked it down the middle over time, in my sleep. In August, I moved to Vermont to get back on…
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My cousin had a lot to say to me over New Year’s Eve at that snowy mountain mansion. The same Green Mountains that fostered my healing became a pit of snakes the second I walked through the all-too-familiar door of my aunt’s home. Two things I learned from hearing about myself from someone who watched…
Sharon Rose 